Heart Boost

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Heart Boost
Artwork fromDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
First appearance	Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
Latest appearance	Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)

“It's a heart! You'd better not think too much about that, bro...”

—Funky Kong,Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

AHeart Boost is a power-up item that appears inDonkey Kong Country Returns (as well asits Nintendo 3DS port andits Nintendo Switch port) andDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (as well asits Nintendo Switch port). When equipped, it serves as an additionalheart for the player's health. The heart has a white plus in the middle. Heart Boosts can be bought for tenBanana Coins fromCranky Kong's Shop inDonkey Kong Country Returns andFunky's Fly 'n' Buy inDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. InDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D's New Mode andDonkey Kong Country Returns HD's Modern Mode, Heart Boosts cost three Banana Coins.

When the player takes damage, they lose the heart of a Heart Boost before their normal hearts. If this happens, the player can regain the heart through any means that recovers a regular heart. This is unlike theBanana Juice item, whose ability to block damage cannot be replenished. The game prioritizes restoring normal hearts before those of a Heart Boost. As with all inventory items, the Heart Boost's effect wears off if the player leaves thelevel. Losing a life does not cause the player to lose a Heart Boost, also unlike the Banana Juice.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze adds a restriction. While the player can equip more than one item for a level, a character can equip only one Heart Boost.^[1]

Profiles[edit]

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D North American digital instruction manual:"Adds one extra heart to your heart count."

Gallery[edit]

Donkey Kong Country Returns sprite

Names in other languages[edit]

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	体力アップ^[?] Tairyoku Appu	Strength Up
Italian	Cuore extra^[?]	Extra heart
Spanish	Corazón Extra^[?]	Extra Heart

References[edit]

^"Taking these with you will increase your maximum hearts by one. You can only take one percharacter for each level." – 2014.Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Wii U electronic manual (PDF).nintendo.com (American English). Page 17. Archived January 10, 2017, 15:38:28 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 28, 2025.

[Edit] Donkey Kong Country Returns /Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D /Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
Characters	Playable	Donkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kong^c
	Supporting	Cranky Kong •Rambi •Squawks •Super Kong •Tutorial Pig •Whale •Wigglevine
	Bosses	Mugly (Krazy Kalimba) •Scurvy Crew (The Maraca Gang) •Stu (Gong Oh) •Mole Miner Max/Mole Train (Banjo Bottom) •Mangoruby (Wacky Pipes) •Thugly (Xylobone) •Colonel Pluck (Cordian) •Tiki Tong
	Other	Elephant •Giraffe •Zebra
Enemies and obstacles	Tiki Tak Tribe	Fireball •Flaming Tiki Buzz •Giga Goro Ball •Screaming Pillar •Screaming Pillar (big) •Tiki Boing •Tiki Bomber •Tiki Buzz •Tiki Doom •Tiki Goon •Tiki Pilot •Tiki Pop •Tiki Seeker •Tiki Tank •Tiki Tong Tower •Tiki Torch •Tiki Tork •Tiki Zing •Tiki Zing (big) •Tiki Zing (Foggy Fumes)
Enemies and obstacles	Other	Ack •AckStack •Ape-Eating Plant •Awk •Big Squeekly •Bonehead Jed •Bopapodamus •Bowling bird •BuckBomb •BuckBot •Buzzbite •Cageberry •Char-Char •Chomp •Chū Komorin •Electrasquid •Electroid •Fireball •Firebite •Frogoon •Giant Chomp •Giga Rangwi •Green Chomp •Hopgoon •Hothead Jed •Humzee •Jellybob •Kowalee •Leaping flame •Mimic •Mole Guard •Mole Miner •Muncher •Pinchly •Rawk •Ready-Bots (Pogobot ·Pyrobot) •Rentamaguma •Robobee •Shooting Chomp •Skellirex •Skittler •Skittler Pillar •Skullyrex •Snaggles •Snippys •Squeekly •Squiddicus •Squidly •Stilts •Toothberry •Wiggle •Yellow Snaggles
Objects	Items	Banana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Banana Mirror •Crash Guard^b •Green Balloon^b •Hanging vine •Heart •Heart Boost •K-O-N-G Letters •Map Key •Puzzle Piece •Rare Orb •Red Balloon
	Barrels	Barrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •DK Barrel •Regular Barrel •Slot Machine Barrel
	Miscellaneous	Bag •Container •Green surface •Rambi Crate •Red and blue blocks •Tire •Mole Train •Spiked shaft (Jagged Jewels)^b •Spiked shaft (Tiki Tong Terror) •Trapdoor •Tar pit
	Vehicles	Mine Cart •Rocket Barrel
Moves		Barrel Jet •Barrel Roll (Cartwheel Attack) •Blow •Charge •Cling •Crouch •Grab •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Jump •Kong Roll •Peanut Popgun •Run •Helicopter Spin^c
Levels	Jungle	1-1:Jungle Hijinxs • 1-2:King of Cling • 1-3:Tree Top Bop • 1-4:Sunset Shore • 1-5:Canopy Cannons • 1-6:Crazy Cart • 1-K:Platform Panic • 1-B:Mugly's Mound
	Beach	2-1:Poppin' Planks • 2-2:Sloppy Sands • 2-3:Peaceful Pier • 2-4:Cannon Cluster • 2-5:Stormy Shore • 2-6:Blowhole Bound • 2-7:Tidal Terror • 2-K:Tumblin' Temple • 2-B:Pinchin' Pirates
	Ruins	3-1:Wonky Waterway • 3-2:Button Bash • 3-3:Mast Blast • 3-4:Damp Dungeon • 3-5:Itty Bitty Biters • 3-6:Temple Topple • 3-K:Shifty Smashers • 3-B:Ruined Roost
	Cave	4-1:Rickety Rails • 4-2:Grip 'n' Trip • 4-3:Bombs Away • 4-4:Mole Patrol • 4-5:Crowded Cavern • 4-K:Jagged Jewels • 4-B:The Mole Train
	Forest	5-1:Vine Valley • 5-2:Clingy Swingy • 5-3:Flutter Flyaway • 5-4:Tippin' Totems • 5-5:Longshot Launch • 5-6:Springy Spores • 5-7:Wigglevine Wonders • 5-8:Muncher Marathon • 5-K:Blast & Bounce • 5-B:Mangoruby Run
	Cliff	6-1:Sticky Situation • 6-2:Prehistoric Path • 6-3:Weighty Way • 6-4:Boulder Roller • 6-5:Precarious Plateau • 6-6:Crumble Canyon • 6-7:Tippy Shippy • 6-8:Clifftop Climb • 6-K:Perilous Passage • 6-B:Thugly's Highrise
	Factory	7-1:Foggy Fumes • 7-2:Slammin' Steel • 7-3:Handy Hazards • 7-4:Gear Getaway • 7-5:Cog Jog • 7-6:Switcheroo • 7-7:Music Madness • 7-R:Lift-off Launch • 7-K:Treacherous Track • 7-B:Feather Fiend
	Volcano	8-1:Furious Fire • 8-2:Hot Rocket • 8-3:Roasting Rails • 8-4:Smokey Peak • 8-5:Bobbing Basalt • 8-6:Moving Melters • 8-7:Red Red Rising • 8-K:Five Monkey Trial • 8-B:Tiki Tong Terror
	Cloud^b	9-1:Crushin' Columns^b • 9-2:Gushin' Geysers^b • 9-3:Spiky Surprise^b • 9-4:Mischievous Moles^b • 9-5:Topsy Turvy^b • 9-6:Tar Ball Fall^b • 9-7:Robo Factory^b • 9-8:Lavawheel Volcano^b • 9-1^a/9-9^b:Golden Temple
Further info		Donkey Kong Returns Original Sound Track •Extras (image names in other languages) •Gallery (3D ·HD) •Iwata Asks • "Mine Menace" •Staff (3D ·HD)
^a Appears inDonkey Kong Country Returns ^b Appears inDonkey Kong Country Returns 3D andDonkey Kong Country Returns HD ^c Appears inDonkey Kong Country Returns HD, introduced in version 1.1.0
RelatedPlay Nintendo activities Can’t-miss games •Who are these jerks of the jungle? •Who's Your Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Banana Bud?

[Edit] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) /Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo Switch)
Characters	Playable	Donkey Kong •Diddy Kong •Dixie Kong •Cranky Kong •Funky Kong*
	Supporting	Don Zunāna •Funky Kong •Professor Chops •Rambi •Squawks •Tawks*
	Bosses	Pompy •Skowl •Ba-Boom •Fugu •Bashmaster •Lord Fredrik
	Other	Big Squeekly •Fish • Goats •Mugly •Skittler •Snippys
Enemies	Snowmad	Tucks (Archy ·Archy (fire) ·Big Sphen ·Boom Bird ·Painguin Tucks ·Papa Painguin ·Pengatcha 1-gō ·Pointy Tucks ·Soary ·Speedy Tucks ·Speedy Tuff Tucks ·Trench Tucks ·Tuff Tucks) •Fluff (Harey ·Harold ·Tuff Fluff) •Hootz (Blue Hootz ·Hot Hootz ·Puffton ·Tuffton) •Ice dragon •Lemmington •Waldough (Chum Chucker Charlie ·Fish Poker Pops ·Walbrick ·Walnut)
Enemies	Other	Bouncelisk •Bucky •Buffaloafer •Buzzy •Carnivorous Plantlife (Venus Trap Platform ·Chompette) •Cheesy Chester •Chompasaurus •Dozy •Electrified Anemone •Finley (Blue Finley ·Green Finley ·Red Finley) •Flaming Falling Totem Pole •Fritz •Gordo •Green fish •Hermit crab •Horror Gills •Jellyfish •Large Mimic •Mama Saw •Mimic •Monocle Monica •Piranha •Porcupal •Pufftup •Punchy Paddy •Schnautzel •Sea Urchin •Snaggles •Sour Dodo •Squiddicus •Swooper Dooper •Thug Slug •Toucan't •Wild Wendell •Yellow Snaggles
Objects	Items	Banana •Banana Bunch •Banana Coin •Banana Juice •Blue Balloon •Capsule Toy Machine •Crash Guard •Flying banana •Gold Heart •Green Balloon •Heart •Heart Boost •KONG Letters •Mysterious relic •Puzzle Piece •Red Balloon
	Projectiles	Barrel •Kong Barrel •Water Sack •Watermelon Fuse Bomb
	Miscellaneous	Barrel Cannon •Blast Barrel •Bell •Burlap Hanging Sack •Climbing grass •Collapsible Underwater Grass •Cracked Block •Current •Item container •Item Handle •Pile of leaves •Purple Flower Platform •Rambi Crate •Rolling leaf •Slot Machine Barrel •Snowflake Shield •Spinning Platform •Spring Platform •Swinging vine •Vine-Triggered Platform •Zip-Line Vine
	Vehicles	Log Canoe •Mine Cart •Rocket Barrel
	Obstacles	Avalanche •Chunk of ice •Electroid •Fire •Fireball •Fire Floor •Giant Spiked Nut •Hanging TNT •Icicle •Proximity mine •Snowball •Snowflake •Sting Tentacle •Tornado •Volcanic debris
Moves		Cane Bounce •Cartwheel Attack •Charge •Cling •Corkscrew •Ground Pound (Popgun Pound) •Helicopter Spin •Kong POW •Ranged attack •Roll Attack •Water Skip
Levels	Lost Mangroves	1-1:Mangrove Cove • 1-2:Shipwreck Shore • 1-3:Canopy Chaos • 1-4:Trunk Twister • 1-A:Zip-Line Shrine • 1-B:Busted Bayou • 1-K:Swinger Flinger • 1-BOSS:Big Top Bop
	Autumn Heights	2-1:Windmill Hills • 2-2:Mountain Mania • 2-3:Horn Top Hop • 2-4:Sawmill Thrill • 2-5:Alpine Incline • 2-6:Wing Ding • 2-A:Crumble Cavern • 2-B:Rodent Ruckus • 2-K:Bopopolis • 2-BOSS:Mountaintop Tussle
	Bright Savannah	3-1:Grassland Groove • 3-2:Baobab Bonanza • 3-3:Frantic Fields • 3-4:Scorch 'n' Torch • 3-5:Twilight Terror • 3-6:Cannon Canyon • 3-A:Rickety Rafters • 3-B:Bramble Scramble • 3-K:Precarious Pendulums • 3-BOSS:Triple Trouble
	Sea Breeze Cove	4-1:Deep Keep • 4-2:High Tide Ride • 4-3:Amiss Abyss • 4-4:Irate Eight • 4-5:Sea Stack Attack • 4-6:Current Capers • 4-A:Rockin' Relics • 4-B:Shoal Atoll • 4-K:Spinning Spines • 4-BOSS:Fugu Face-Off
	Juicy Jungle	5-1:Harvest Hazards • 5-2:Reckless Ride • 5-3:Fruity Factory • 5-4:Panicky Paddles • 5-5:Jelly Jamboree • 5-6:Frosty Fruits • 5-A:Beehive Brawl • 5-B:Jammin' Jams • 5-K:Platform Problems • 5-BOSS:Punch Bowl
	Donkey Kong Island	6-1:Homecoming Hijinxs • 6-2:Seashore War • 6-3:Aqueduct Assault • 6-4:Blurry Flurry • 6-5:Forest Folly • 6-6:Cliffside Slide • 6-7:Frozen Frenzy • 6-8:Meltdown Mayhem • 6-A:Dynamite Dash • 6-B:Icicle Arsenal • 6-K:Slippy Spikes • 6-BOSS:Volcano Dome
	Secret Seclusion	7-1:Levitation Station • 7-2:Rocket Rails • 7-3:Crazy Clouds
Miscellaneous		Extras •Funky Kong's surfboard* •Lord Fredrik's horn
Further info		Gallery •Multimedia •Staff (Switch)
RelatedPlay Nintendo activities		A matching game to flip over •Can’t-miss games •The multiplayer way •Which Kong could fit your style? •Who’s that toy?
* Exclusive toDonkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for theNintendo Switch